Jan Matejko’s 1862 painting Stańczyk offers an exploration of what it means to have high functioning depression. In solitary the figure of a jester. Traditionally…
The asylum process for refugees is often portrayed through statistics and policy debates, but behind the headlines are deeply personal stories of fear, resilience, and…
Girl, Interrupted, based on the memoir by Susanna Kaysen, is a powerful film about mental illness and being a young woman in a world that…
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter famous for his Scream painting. After it’s success, he painted Anxiety, another portrait of his mental illness. Munch was…
In today’s episode, Contributing Writer Ruby Kagan speaks with James Downs, a lived experience mental health research expert in eating disorders, looking at the label…
“Prozac Positivity” by Stephen James Smith, a poet and playwright from Dublin, is powerful spoken word piece where he opens up about his deeply personal…
“While most places your mind saves JPEGs, mine has text files instead.” This is how Mike (name changed for anonymity) describes living with complete aphantasia….
In the video titled Why You Can’t Just ‘Get Over’ Trauma: The Science Behind Healing, Dr. Erica Lee, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, delves…
There’s a quiet devastation in realizing that your efforts didn’t lead where you hoped. In the End by Linkin Park is a gripping anthem of…
The cascading waterfall in this photograph, a torrent of white against the dark, rugged rock, is a visceral experience even in its stillness. You can…
